Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

Just saw Congress is making another go at Click-to-cancel. Here's my piece from 2024 theconversation.com/us-governmen...

A texas Hanukkah, challah and smoked brisket

Everyone is led to believe they have a stake in capitalism as capitalists. But it is a trick. Does your 401k get you a spot in a company's board? Do stock options give you control of your boss? No.

It strikes me the way platforms evolve: -you go from receiving content you want to content you don't want -you keep going back hoping for the old algorithm -but it just doesn't do it, yet you keep going back

How does one become a "Higher Ed influencer"? www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Great part of driving an EV: if you smell gas or burning oil while driving, you know it isn't your car

New issue of Fast Capitalism just published!!! This has a special section "The New Normal" about the current Trump Administration Read and Circulate mavmatrix.uta.edu/fastcapitali...

This is probably the most important point. Make you stupid so you have to pay a subscription

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

My son: what does that even have to do with ChatGPT?

This is the most predictable move Labels: AI kills creativity and must be stopped Me: they are going to stop opposing this as soon as they can make money and EXPLOIT LABOR Labels: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I had a dream where I missed the deadline to finish my dissertation. Stress dreams!!!

"Well, they tell me of a pie up in the sky Waiting for me when I die But between the day you're born and when you die They never seem to hear even your cry" - Rest in power Jimmy Cliff

Nepotism is when your first performance is after you are already a star and thinking 100 people is a small first show

Sure, this could be exciting. The problem is the people who develop these technologies don't think about consequences. Look at nuclear weapons. Kluger's response: you're crazy if you don't see this is the future! time.com/7330887/brai...

Elizabeth Moss and Claire Danes need to make a show where they communicate with each other with close-ups of different expressions

This was always the plan! Automate jobs, fire workers, increase unemployed pool of workers, lower wages Read Digital Feudalism!!! www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

We live in a moment of digital feudalism where people work precarious jobs for low pay. But capitalism requires us to consume more. As a result people become buried in debt. books.google.com/books/about/...

Guess I'm starting a collection now

"If hard work related to wealth, then meat-packers and daycare workers would be some of the wealthiest people in America" -me 2025, forthcoming book

Cooper loves walks but hates putting on his harness. This is how he hid this morning

RocketMoney . . . A useless subscription to keep track of your . . . Useless subscriptions . . .

I'm working from home, they're hard at work too

Economy is booming! And by that I mean a bomb blew it up and the crater is forming www.dallasnews.com/business/air...

At DSW buying shoes this weekend, a dude came up to me like a drug dealer: "I don't work here or anything, but you should really checkout Skechers, they will change your life"

Reading a book that just said Thomas Jefferson was influenced by John Stuart Mill Mill didn't start writing until after Jefferson was dead!

Happy Friday

Book Announcement: I just published an OER textbook for Introduction to Popular Culture classes (or any other class that addresses popular culture) called "Keepin' Up with Popular Culture" It is free, open-access. Please let me know what you think! uta.pressbooks.pub/keepinupwith...

"What we set out to do was nothing less than to explain why humanity instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism" - Horkheimer and Adorno 1947

Bought a 1918 cylinder Edison Phonograph and records for $140!

Why didn't I know about Archive.today until last week? Get the Archive Page extension and be done with paywalls!

Book files submitted!!! 🤞it is on schedule to publish in February 2026 anthempress.com/books/music-...

Anthropic settled and they've said if they have to pay every author, it would effectively kill Generative AI!!!

Bought a 1918 cylinder Edison Phonograph and records for $140!

One of the strangest insights I receive from students is that the music industry doesn't care about appearances anymore. They think that because Lizzo exists, everything is body positivity . . .